23. National Autonomous University of Mexico — Known as UNAM in Mexico, this university is ranked the best in the country, scoring 37.8 out of 100.

Flickr/CC 2.0

22. Sabanci University — Sabanci was founded in 1994, and is ranked as Turkey's second-best university. It scored highly in the citations category with 52.8.

Cercan/CC 3.0

21. National Cheng Kung University — NCKU, in Tainan, Taiwan, is one of the country's best schools, scoring 39.2 overall.

Wikipedia/CC 3.0

20. Tomsk Polytechnic University — Located in Russia's Ural Mountains region, Tomsk scored highly for citations, with 82.4 points. It did very poorly in the research category, however, getting just 15.1.

Adam Jones/CC 3.0

19. National Tsing Hua University — Tsing Hua, not to be confused with Tsinghua University in Beijing, is home to around 12,000 students and gained an overall score of 40.2.

Vegafish/CC 2.5

18. Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University — Probably the best name on this list, the St Petersburg-based university, like Tomsk before it, scored highly for citations, but poorly in the research category.

CC 2.0

17. Fudan University — Home to one of China's best journalism schools. Fudan, in China's financial capital, Shanghai, scored 41.4 overall, with a citations score of 61.1.

Wikipedia

16. Indian Institute of Science — India's top institution of higher learning, according to Times Higher Education. The IIS scored 42.3 overall, with a teaching score of 42.7.

Wikipedia/GNU

15. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology — Another Taiwanese university to make the list, Taiwan Tech scored 42.5 overall in the emerging-markets ranking.

Wikipedia/CC 3.0

14. Nanjing University — Founded in its current form in 1902 but with roots as far back as 258, Nanjing is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China. Overall, it scored 42.6 out of 100.

Wikipedia/CC 3.0

13. Koç University — Named after its founder, Vehbi Koç, this private university in Istanbul ranks as the best in Turkey, scoring 43.1 overall.

Khutuck/CC 3.0

12. National Chiao Tung University — Located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Chiao Tung has been home to several Nobel Prize winners, and scored 43.2 points overall to pip Koç University into 13th place.

Slayer/CC 2.0

11. Stellenbosch University — Stellenbosch, in South Africa's Western Cape Province, is the third-best university in the country, educating nearly 30,000 people. The university scored 43.3 overall.

Wikipedia/CC 3.0

10. Shanghai Jiao Tong University — Jiao Tong rounds out the top 10 universities, thanks to a strong income score of 92.9 and an overall rating of 43.7.

Peter Potrowl/GNU

9. University of Sao Paulo — Brazil's top university gained an overall score of 44.5. The school counts many of Brazil's most successful people as alumni, including Euryclides de Jesus Zerbin, who did Latin America's first successful heart transplant.

Public Domain

8. Zhejiang University — Founded in 1897 and a member of the Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance — a sort of Chinese Ivy League — Zhejiang educates 45,000 people. Its overall score was 45.9.

Peter Potrowl/CC 3.0

7. University of Science and Technology of China — Originally located in Beijing, the USTC was moved to the eastern city of Hefei as part of the Cultural Revolution. The university specialises in science subjects, but also awards humanities and management degrees. It scored 48.6 points in THE's ranking.

Ccyber5/CC 3.0

6. University of Witwatersrand — Witwatersrand is South Africa's second-best university, according to Times Higher Education. That's thanks to an overall score of 49.3. The university scored a healthy 76 points in the citations category.

Samuella99/CC 3.0

5. National Taiwan University — Atop Taiwan's university pyramid is the National Taiwan University in the capital, Taipei. It scored 50.8 overall, thanks in part to a solid research score of 58.

Uwe Aranas/CC 3.0

4. University of Cape Town — Cape Town, which is home to 26,000 students, is the best university not only in South Africa, but the whole of Africa. Times Higher Education gave it an overall score of 56.5.

Adrian Frith/CC 3.0

3. Lomonosov Moscow State University — Russia's top university is Lomonosov, named after founder Mikhail Lomonosov, who started the college in 1755. Today, it is home to 47,000 students in 39 different faculties. Overall, it scored 59.7.

Alexey Kljatov/CC 3.0

2. Tsinghua University — Tsinghua is one of two universities in China head and shoulders above other emerging-markets universities. It gained an overall score of 72.6, thanks in some part to a research score of 83. It is in China's capital, Beijing.

Wikipedia/CC 2.0

1. Peking University — Officially the best university outside of the developed world, Beijing's Peking University is home to around 32,000 students and beat out Tsinghua by 1.2 points, scoring 73.8 in THE's ranking. The college scored 77.8 for its teaching.